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The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, it provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study.

JSTOR (Journal STORage) is an electronic archive of journals in the arts, history, and sciences, including many music journals. While JSTOR does not provide the most recent several years of a title, it does provide the full text of all issues prior to that rolling cutoff.

Browsing is likely to be more successful than a direct search in this resource. Not all scores may be available because of different legal definitions of public domain in Canada (the home of this database), the United States, Europe, and other areas. As per the website, Ottaviano Petrucci was the author of the first book of printed music, published in 1501.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full Text is the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. It includes 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertations and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present, together with 1.2 million full text dissertations that are available for immediate download in PDF format. In addition, over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.

More than 70,000 new full text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations through UMI's Digital Archiving and Access Program. Full text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image.

Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDT - Full Text provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.

Beyond the Surface

A virtual human body that can be examined from all angles and deconstructed layer by layer from skin to skeleton. Useful for examining the vocal apparatus and other parts of the body important in creating music.

A virtual human body that can be examined from all angles and deconstructed layer by layer from skin to skeleton. Useful for examining the vocal apparatus and other parts of the body used in creating music. The database includes over 4,000 3D anatomical structures. Green checkmarks indicate the parts of Anatomy TV that the Consortium Library subscribes to.

This website is your key to the entire Neue Mozart Ausgabe
(NMA), or Mozart Collected Edition, published by Barenreiter over
the past 50 years. Many dozen volumes of scores and critical
reports are available in PDF form. German is the default language
after the introductory page, but there is an English option on the
search page.
This massive endeavor was funded by a generous grant from
the Packard Humanities Institute, while the actual digital
conversion was done by the International Mozart Foundation of
Salzburg (ISM: Internationalen Stiftung Mozarteum).

Oxford Reference Online brings together language and
subject reference works into a single cross-searchable
resource. The Core Collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving subscribers unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource.